Chapter Eighty-Three: The Gyantse Special Battle

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86_86661 In the South China Sea, Chen Zhong also received a telegram from Blade. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The special operations group led by the info blade has entered the area.

To Blade's heartache, when they arrived, the British army was already bloodied, and Gyantse was shrouded in a bloody dark cloud.

In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu, Britain sent a team of 1,000 people with Younghusband as the chief commander and White as the deputy commander? The Great Army, commanded by Major General MacDonald, began a large-scale armed aggression against the region.

MacDonald led 1,150 British troops, armed with 4 artillery pieces and 4 Makqin machine guns, crossed the Zelila Pass, occupied Rinjingang, and occupied Chumphi, an important gateway to Gyantse.

At the beginning of the thirtieth year of Guangxu, MacDonald and Younghusband led their troops to cross Parry, and then advanced their troops to Tula.

In the face of the imminent large-scale armed offensive of the British army, the Qing court issued a shameful instruction of "not to send troops easily"!

However, at the strong request of the main battle faction and ignoring the instructions of the Qing court, the local government requisitioned more than 2,000 troops from all over the country and rushed to the Qumei Xingu area north of Tuola, where two stone walls were built to organize defense.

The British and Tibetan armies met at Qumei Xingu, and the leader of the British army, Younghusband Peng, deceived the Tibetan army and demanded a ceasefire between the two sides.

The cunning British reloaded the bullet the moment they unloaded their guns, and the simple Tibetan army obeyed the agreement and extinguished the fire twist of the muskets.

Macdonald, however, secretly mobilized his forces to seize the hill. The British deployed machine-gun and artillery positions on the right side of the mountain, and the cavalry spread out on the flat ground, encircling the Tibetan army.

Younghusband pretended to hold the Tibetan commander, and MacDonald commanded the British to force the Tibetan army to disarm. The Latin color Daiben pulled out his revolver and fired a shot into the sky, launching the signal for a general attack, and the surrounding Tibetan troops drew their waist knives in time and rushed towards the enemy.

But the Tibetan army could not fire the arquebus, because it had to be loaded with a bullet and then ignited the fire to set off the arquebus, and it took four or five minutes for skilled soldiers to set off. Under the intensive strafing and bombardment of the enemy's machine guns, rifles and artillery, the Tibetan army was undaunted and waged a stubborn struggle with the British with broadswords, spears and iron forks in their hands.

However, the Tibetan army was eventually hunted down by the British because they had no combat experience. After that, the British army carried out a brutal large-scale attack on the Tibetan military and civilians. Slaughter? killed, and then took the opportunity to capture the Gruul. More than 1,400 Tibetan troops were killed in the Battle of Qumei and Xingu, and the negotiator Latins and his attachés also suffered misfortunes.

The British army then continued its assault on Gyantse. Along the way, the masses automatically organized themselves to block the enemy's arms and food.

The Tibetan army learned that the British army had begun to advance towards Zachang. Zachang is the only way to Gyantse, where there is a canyon about 1 km long, with cliffs and deep rapids. The Tibetan army, which had concentrated more than 4,000 troops in this area, decided to use this natural barrier to prevent further British invasion and defend Gyantse.

At that time, the British army sent more than 30 cavalry as the vanguard to invade the canyon, and the Tibetan army lacked combat experience, and alarmed the enemy during the march, but took advantage of the superior terrain to shoot the enemy with earthen guns, earthen cannons, rolling logs and flying locusts and stones, and the enemy was in a mess and had nowhere to escape. In the end, all the British vanguard troops that entered the gorge were annihilated.

But the British outside the valley bombarded the hills and slopes on both sides of the gorge with heavy artillery, and the British infantry, under the cover of artillery, seized the Tibetan positions from behind the mountain and on both sides.

After the British army captured the defense line of the Tibetan army in Zachang, they then invaded Gyantse. Since most of the troops stationed in Gyantse were transferred to the southern passes for defense, there was a huge disparity in strength compared with the British army. Under these circumstances, the defenders of Gyantse retreated on their own initiative, and the British occupied Gyantse.

After occupying Gyantse, the British stationed most of their cavalry and infantry and Youngdressing's headquarters in the vicinity of Janlolinka, and scattered some of their reconnaissance troops and cavalry near the Tibetan army's defense area in the vicinity of Guocun, and dispatched small units to patrol and reconnoiter from time to time.

The British army also launched a surrender offensive against Gyantse Zongben (county magistrate or county official) and the heads of nearby temples and manors, but no one went to surrender.

After the fall of Gyantse, the militias in various places remobilized, and more than 16,000 troops were recruited and gathered on the roads from Gyantse and Shigatse to Lhasa.

Under the cover of night, more than 1,000 Tibetan troops attacked the camp of Ronghepeng in Jianglolinka and almost completely annihilated the enemy. In a panic, Younghusband led 40 soldiers to flee south to the village of Kangma, where they were attacked and almost killed. The Tibetan army drove the British out of Gyantse through the Pala ambush.

In the summer, the British launched a new round of military offensive for the battle for Gyantse. Based on the Zijin Monastery, Pala Village, and Gyantse Loginga near Gyantse, the British army surrounded the Tibetan troops in Gyantse Zong (county) and the streets, guarded the road leading to Lhasa and Shigatse, and completely cut off the water sources of Gyantse Zong and Gyantse City.

Dzong is located on a prominent hill in the center of Gyantse City, and the bunker-style building is very strong, which is the commanding height of the Gyantse Plain.

The leader of the British invading army, Younghusband Peng, issued an ultimatum and began a general attack on the city of Gyantse. Under the fierce counterattack of the Tibetan army on the castle of Gyantsezong, the British army suffered heavy casualties, and although they had superior equipment, they still did not dare to approach.

In the end, the British used large-caliber artillery, blasted a gap in the Gyantse Zong Castle with superior artillery fire, and organized an infantry charge. When the Tibetan army and militia ran out of ammunition and food, the British army launched a strong attack, and the Tibetan army and the militia fought with the British army with knives, spears, sticks, etc., but finally due to heavy casualties, some of them were hung down with ropes from the cliff in the southwest direction, highlighting the heavy encirclement of the British army, and transferred to Baiju Temple to continue to fight, and the other part of the battlefield that did not have time to break through fought with the enemy's bare hands, and finally jumped off the cliff and died in the country.

When Blade's special operations group arrived, they learned of these inhumane and filled with anger.

Blade immediately reported the situation to Chen Zhong. After Chen Zhong saw this information, he regretted it very much, he actually remembered this history, but at that time, Hainan was in an extremely dangerous time, and due to the restrictions of transportation conditions, he could not quickly arrive to stop the killing.

So, Chen Zhong ordered Blade to exterminate all the inhumane British troops in Tibet!

Blade led more than 1,000 members of the special operations group to secretly assassinate and separate the invading British troops, and in less than two days, more than 1,000 British troops mysteriously disappeared.

Only Younghusband and his guard squad were less than ten people left, and they were cunningly hidden.

Later, the special forces found the executioner near the Baiju Temple and captured him alive, and the deputy commander White disappeared, and it is said that at that time, the guy had returned to India and escaped the catastrophe.

Blade reported the situation to Chen Zhong, who meant to suspend the handling of this Younghusband and use him as a bargaining chip in exchange for a war in the South China Sea. However, for such an executioner, even if he is allowed to live, he should be made a eunuch-type character, and he must be cut off!

Blade conscientiously carried out Chen Zhong's order, and the heinous Younghusband finally paid the price for his miserably, and became a bastard who was neither male nor female.

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